Full disclosure... Director Richard Stanley has been a friend of mine for many years, but if a movie was bad from someone I knew, I'm not gonna lie about it. COLOR OUT OF SPACE was a hell of a lot of fun. It does take about 40% of the movie's running time to kick into crazy but, when it does, it gets really crazy... like Alien-Thing-Alpaca-Nicholas Cage-Nutso crazy.

Entertaining, funny, horrific and engaging black comedy involving a cast of three. A group of friends head out on a yacht, only to soon find themselves stranded in the middle of the ocean. Secrets are revealed and what they do to survive is pretty unsettling. Some good twists, too. A low-budget horror/thriller done right. In another universe, I imagine this film as something John Hughes would've made, if he decided to tackle a horror movie.

Sorry for being so blunt, but this movie is fucking amazing. It's brutal, horrifying, nauseating, unrelenting and will make your blood boil, as it was meant to. It's gratuitous violence may turn off the easily shaken, but... Wow... This is one hell of a revenge thriller based on Brian Garfield's novel. The unrated version is the one to watch.

For me, OPERA is tied evenly with SUSPIRIA as Argento's most amazing film. An almost perfectly filmed "giallo", OPERA is considered by many to be the "bridge" of Argento's career... the point in which his films have distinctly "gone down hill" and his career hasn't quite recovered. I admit to liking almost everything he has filmed, really, including THE STENDHAL SYNDROME which came after this, but OPERA is a masterwork.